Introducing ARTstor Beta

ARTstor Beta is now available to all ARTstor participants. With the release of ARTstor Beta we are introducing a new technical platform and user interface that will make searching, browsing, and organizing images in the Digital Library faster and easier. As you begin working in the ARTstor Beta environment, you will immediately notice that ARTstor now sits within your web browser rather than launching a Java client. Some features to note include:

• New navigation bar options to help you find, organize, present, upload, and share images
• Drag and drop images directly into your image groups
• Sort search results by date, creator, or title

More information on ARTstor Beta is available at:

• ARTstor Help
• ARTstor Navigation Bar Guide
• ARTstor System Requirements for additional browsers and recommended settings

We will continue to make improvements to ARTstor Beta throughout the summer. While we encourage you to try ARTstor Beta, ARTstor Legacy will still be available throughout the upcoming academic year.

We hope you enjoy using ARTstor Beta — send your feedback to ARTstor User Services.

ARTstor breakfast at ALA annual conference

ARTstor will hold a participants’ meeting on Monday, June 30 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the annual American Libraries Association conference in Anaheim, CA.

The agenda will include a collections update, a discussion of interdisciplinary uses of ARTstor, and a technology update with a focus on ARTstor Beta—our new Digital Library interface and software platform.

We will also be available for individualized meetings, which can be scheduled in advance by emailing userservices@artstor.org

More European art and architecture from Scala Archives

Through an ongoing collaboration with Art Resource and Scala Archives (Florence, Italy), ARTstor has just released 2,848 additional images of major Italian and other European works, bringing the total number of Scala images now available in ARTstor to more than 13,000. ARTstor will ultimately make available approximately 12,000 high-quality images of European art and architecture from Scala, with a special focus on the archaeology, art, and architecture of Italy and on the collections of the major museums in Italy and other European countries.
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Please note that we are hard at work clustering these superior images with other ARTstor images that depict the same works of art. ARTstor clustering helps users find the optimal image of a given work of art. For an example of ARTstor clustering, please search for “Raphael Disputa Scala.”
To browse and view the images in this collection: from the “Welcome Page,” click on “ARTstor Collections,” and then choose “Italian and European Art (Scala Archives).”
For more detailed information about this collection, see the Italian and European Art (Scala Archives)

Upcoming Collection: Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain Collection

ARTstor is collaborating with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain [CVMA (GB)] and the National Monuments Record, the public archive at English Heritage, to distribute approximately 18,000 images of medieval English stained glass windows in the Digital Library.

Founded in 1949, the CVMA (GB) is an international research project dedicated to the publication of medieval stained glass. To date, committees in 14 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain with Catalonia, Switzerland, and the United States of America) have collectively published nearly 100 printed volumes. CVMA (GB), Great Britain’s national survey of medieval stained glass, is a British Academy Research Project hosted by the University of York. In addition to its ongoing efforts to publish all medieval stained glass in Great Britain up to 1540, the CVMA (GB) has undertaken a project to create a digital Picture Archive, which is available on its website.

The majority of these digital images have been provided by the National Monuments Record (English Heritage) in Swindon, which houses the CVMA photographic archive of approximately 30,000 images. With funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, part of the photographic archive has already been scanned and these digital images (approximately 9,600) will be made available in ARTstor. These will be augmented by an additional 8,500 images that the CVMA (GB) has collected from various sources. ARTstor will be providing support to the CVMA (GB) to complete the digitization of a subset of these images. When complete, the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain Collection in ARTstor will present a comprehensive archive documenting all aspects of medieval English stained glass.

Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture from the Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University)

Harvard University is collaborating with ARTstor to digitize and distribute approximately 3,500 images of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture photographed by Ralph Lieberman. A majority of the images document architecture and sculpture in Italy, but the collection will also include sites in other European countries, such as Germany and Spain.

The images have been selected from the Ralph Lieberman Photograph Collection, which is housed at the Harvard Fine Arts Library and consists of more than 10,000 black-and-white prints and negatives. ARTstor is also sponsoring new photography by Lieberman, including a campaign to document historic and contemporary art and architecture in Philadelphia, PA.

For more information about this collection, please see the Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University) page.